Grand Challenges

Question 1

What are the 5 grand challenges?

Answer 1

Forecasting 
Observing
Confining
Responding
Innovating

Question 2

What are the four criteria’s for these grand challenges?

Answer 2

1. Scientific importance
2. Need for global co operation
3. Relevance to decision makers
4. Leverage

Question 3

What is global earth?

Answer 3

A 10 year old conservation organisation that develops knowledge and supports transformation and development.

Question 4

What is KAN?

Answer 4

Knowledge actions network, it’s a conservation organisation that deals with emergent risks and extreme events.

Question 5

What is the IPCC?

Answer 5

Intergovernmental panel on climate change.

Question 6

Who was Elinor Ostrom and what did she do?

Answer 6

She won the 2009 Nobel Peace prize for economics and issued a call for innovative interdisciplinary approaches to challenges.

Question 7

How much CO2 is given off my humans?

Answer 7

409.95ppm

Question 8

What is the hydrosphere?

Answer 8

Water

Question 9

What is the geosphere?

Answer 9

Crust, mantle and inner/outer core

Question 10

What is the biosphere?

Answer 10

Systems including living organisms

Question 11

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 11

Gas

Question 12

What is the anthropocene?

Answer 12

Era of human influence

Question 13

What does interdisciplinary mean?

Answer 13

Requiring multiple research projects across subdisciplines to be addressed